Shock-binding means.



P. H. WISMAN. SHOCK BINDING MEANS. APPLICATXON FILED MAY 29. 19H. RENEWED MAY 1.

1 91 a. Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

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ATTORNEY PHILIP HENRY WISMAN, 0F SALEM, VIRGINIA.

SHOCK-BINDING- MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1918.

Application filed May 29, 1917, Serial No. 171.730. Renewed May '7. 1918. Serial No. 233,176.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP H. VhsMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shock-Binding Means, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shock binding means, and more particularly to means for temporarily securing shocks so as to permit a tying medium to be secured about the same.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a device of the character stated of simple construction. and operation which is especially adapted for use in connection with shocks of grain lying upon the ground. A further object is to provide a device having a cord for compressing and confining the shock carried by a bar especially adapted to be inserted beneath a shock, this bar being provided with means at one end for securing the cord so as to insert the same beneath the shock with the bar. A. further object is to provide a bar and a cord in combination with means for securing a tying medium in the bar at the end thereof inserted beneath the shock so that the cord for temporarily compressing and securing the shock, and the tying medium for permanently tying the shock will be simultaneously passed beneath the same. Further objects will appear from the detailed de scription.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a top plan view of a shock tying device constructed in accordance with my invention,

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same showing the compressing cord in substantially the position it occupies when the device is in use, and

Fig. 8 is a detail end view showing the means for securing the compressing cord and the tying medium.

The bar 1 is made preferably of hard wood, and is comparatively light. This bar tapers from its center toward each end. At the center of the bar, 011 the upper face thereof, is secured an approximately rectangular metallic plate 2. This plate is provided at one end with an integral eye 3 through which is secured one end of the compressing cord 4, this cord being comparatively heavy. At the other end plate 2 is provided with two spaced sleeves 5 and 6 between which is pivotally secured an eye 10 in which is rotatabl mounted a pulley 11. On each arm of stirrup 10 is permanently fastened a securing hook 12. This hook is formed from heavy spring steel and is so shaped as to tightly grip frictionally the cord 4 when passed about the pulley and inserted into the hook.

Bar 1 is provided at its end remote from pulley 11 with an inwardly converging vertically extending slot- 13. This slot is adapted to receive and secure the cord 4 when ex tended along the upper face of the bar and turned down beneath the bar, the cord being drawn tightly into the slot 13 as in Fig. l of the drawings, and as indicated in Fig. 2. Bar 1 is further provided with a transverse groove 1% extending across the slot 18 at a right angle thereto, this groove being positioned at the approximate center of the end of the bar. Groove 14E also converges inwardly and is adapted to receive the strand 15 of the tying twine so as to grip the same tightly frictionally when inserted into the slot. This strand may be taken from a suitable roll 16 or any other suitable source of supply, the twine being extended along one side of bar 1 and passed through a similar transverse groove 17 at the other end of the bar. By this construction, the strand 15 of the tying twine may be extended along one side of bar 1 and tightly secured in the groove 141-, after which the cord t may be extended along the end portion of the bar and tightly secured over the end and underneath the bar, being securely held in this position by means of the converging slot 13. By securing the strand 15 of the tying twine in groove 17 at the other end of the bar, all slackness in the twine on the bar such as would tend to interfere with easy manipulation of the bar is eliminated. When the tying twine and the cord 4 have thus been secured, the end of the bar in which the cord 4: and the tying twine 15 are secured, may be inserted beneath the shock. After the cord 4c has thus been passed beneath the shock, it

may be released from the bar and passed about the shock and under pulley 11, the cord being drawn tight so as to compress the shock and being then inserted into one or both of the securing hooks 12 so as to temporarily secure the shock, after which the strand 15 of tying twine may be disengaged from the bar and permanently secured about the shock in the usual manner. When the shock has thus been permanently secured, the compressing cord 4 may be released from hook 12, the operation just described being repeated for each succeeding shock.

What I claim is 1. In shock tying devices, a bar provided at one end with means for receiving and holding a cord, a cord secured at one end to said bar and adapted to be releasably secured in said holding means for insertion beneath a shock, and means carried by the bar for releasably securing the free end of said cord when passed about a shock so as to confine the shock for securing a tying medium about the same.

2. In shock tying devices, a bar having a vertically extending inwardly converging slot at one end for receiving and holding a shock compressing and confining cord, a cord secured at one end to said bar and adapted to be inserted into said slot so as to be releasably secured thereby, and means carried by the bar for releasably securing the free end of said cord when passed about a shock so as to confine the shock for securing a tying medium about the same.

3. In shock tying devices, a bar having a vertically extending inwardly converging slot at one end for receiving and holding a cord, said bar being further provided with a transverse groove extending across said slot to receive a tying medium inserted therein a cord secured at one end to said bar and adapted to be inserted into said slot so as to be releasably secured therein and to be passed above the tying medium so as to retain the same in said groove, and means carried by the bar for releasably securing the free end of said cord when passed about a shock so as to confine the shock for securing a tying medium about the same.

4. In shock tying means, a bar having a vertically extending inwardly converging slot at one end, a cord secured at one end to the bar and adapted to be inserted into said slot so as to be releasably secured therein, a pulley supporting frame hingedly secured to the bar, a pulley carried thereby, and

means carried by said frame for releasably securing the free end of said cord when passed about a shock and over said pulley.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP HENRY WISMAN. Witnesses:

WV. A. VEST,

J. HORACE SMITH.

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